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Topics: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Jeremy Clarkson, TV, ITV
Jess Battison
Topics: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Jeremy Clarkson, TV, ITV
“I would’ve known that,” “Come on mate, everyone knows that…” “How the hell did they get that right?” It’s not a bit of quizzing telly if you aren’t shouting through it from your sofa.
But one show that stumps a lot of us, or convinces us we’re geniuses, is of course Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
Viewers are often left baffled by the question choices or angry over ‘fixed’ claims and back in 2018, many were shocked by a contestant’s insane reason for why he knew the answer to a £125,000 question.
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Gareth Kendall had the audience gasping while he mulled over the answer to: “The ruins of the Urquhart Castle stand on the banks of which loch?"
The bloke had already discussed with Jeremy Clarkson about being an amputee as a result of a car crash in 2012.
And he had already gone viral once before, after sharing a photo of a tattoo on his leg reading: “One foot in the grave,” with a finger pointing at his prosthetic leg.
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His terrifying ordeal ended up helping him out years after his crash as he responded to that £125,000 question by saying: “I know this, and I know this because I lost my leg there.”
Turns out, Kendall had actually been in that area on the day of his crash.
While the audience gasped in response he reassured: “Not in the castle! In Inverness.
“If I remember rightly, on the loch, there's a little inlet with a castle ruins there, so I'll go Loch Ness."
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And of course, he was correct and took his total to the safety zone.
Clarkson said: “Finally, this is the best show ever. This will improve the fixtures and fittings in your cafe. You crashed there? That's a remarkable piece of good fortune.”
Viewers were buzzing for the bloke as he took home a decent chunk of cash as they wrote on X it was ‘class’ and called him a ‘legend’.
Others wrote: “What a great contestant Gareth on Who Wants to be a Millionaire and to get that question on Loch Ness based on his own experience has changed his life for a second time.”
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As another said it was ‘far too tense’ but ‘well played’.
“Well done Gareth you deserved to win on Who Wants to be a Millionaire especially when the answer was where you had your accident,” a final user wrote.